Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan brought Liu Ling to Ya Fei’s residence and asked Ya Fei to gather rare materials while offering Liu Ling herb seeds and seedlings to cultivate. Alone in Ya Fei’s bedroom, he melted a jade fragment from the Alchemist Association and uncovered the first change of the Three Mysterious Flame Change, deepening his understanding of the technique.

• Ya Fei used her soul power to inspect Liu Ling and agreed to bring her to a quiet place.
• Xiao Yan gave Ya Fei a list of rare materials, and she explained that gathering resources across the Jia Ma and Chu Yun Empires had become difficult.
• Xiao Yan suggested that Ya Fei give Liu Ling precious herb seeds and seedlings to cultivate, and Ya Fei led Liu Ling away while asking about her origins.
• Xiao Yan went to Ya Fei’s bedroom and used the Proto-Emperor Flame to melt the jade fragment from the Alchemist Association.
• The fragment released the secret information for the first change of the Three Mysterious Flame Change, which Xiao Yan absorbed and studied.

Xiao Yan created the Five Dragons Flourishing Spirit secret art, which let him temporarily boost his strength by absorbing five-element dragon qi. After Ya Fei brought him the materials for an Emperor-Breaking Pill, she asked what was happening between him and Yun Yun.

• Xiao Yan studied the Three Mysterious Flame Change and the Hidden Talisman Classic, then deduced the Five Dragons Flourishing Spirit secret art.
• Xiao Yan realized his Heavenly Flames could let him cultivate the art using all five elements and temporarily raise his strength with few side effects.
• Xiao Yan thought about Xiao Xuan and believed his cultivation method might offer the ancient soul a way to survive.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yan a storage ring containing the complete materials for an Emperor-Breaking Pill.
• Ya Fei asked Xiao Yan what was going on between him and Yun Yun.

Xiao Yan and Ya Fei discussed his relationship with Yun Yun before Ya Fei danced for him and they grew intimate. Their moment was interrupted by the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, whose identity as Queen Medusa surprised Ya Fei; Medusa quietly accepted that the Xiao Clan could call her by her name.

• Ya Fei guessed that Xiao Yan and Yun Yun's trouble involved Nalan Yanran, but Xiao Yan denied being interested in her.
• Xiao Yan considered having Ya Fei cultivate as a humanoid Heavenly Flame and wondered which Heavenly Flame she could fuse with.
• Ya Fei offered to dance for Xiao Yan, recalling that she had practiced for years after he asked her to help condense the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan massaged Ya Fei's foot and climbed onto the bed with her, but the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python emerged from beneath his robe and startled her.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the snake was Queen Medusa, and Ya Fei connected her identity to Yun Yun's anger and wondered how the Xiao Clan would address her.
• Ya Fei suggested Medusa might expect to be called Queen, but Xiao Yan said her name was enough, and Medusa stopped struggling in his palm.

Xiao Yan refined an Emperor-Breaking Pill and comprehended Phoenix Dance Across the Nine Heavens, a cultivation art tailored to Ya Fei’s talents and the Volcanic Rock Flame. He began transmitting the new art to her, with the chapter ending as they prepared to cultivate.

• Xiao Yan sealed off the courtyard and refined medicinal ingredients while considering how to resolve the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s soul problem and replace Ya Fei’s cultivation art.
• Ya Fei watched Xiao Yan refine a peak sixth-grade Emperor-Breaking Pill, whose energy he contained with a formation barrier.
• Xiao Yan comprehended Phoenix Dance Across the Nine Heavens, an art that used soul power to aid Dou Qi cultivation and complemented the Volcanic Rock Flame.
• Xiao Yan explained the Emperor-Breaking Pill to Ya Fei, swallowed it, and began transmitting the new cultivation art to her.

Xiao Yan used the Emperor-Breaking Pill and his soul power to help Ya Fei master Phoenix Dance Across the Nine Heavens and strengthen the Volcanic Rock Flame. After Ya Fei entered the Endless Flame Domain, the Proto-Emperor Flame began guiding her toward her place among the Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan circulated the Green Lotus Flame Emperor Art and refined the Emperor-Breaking Pill while guiding Ya Fei through her cultivation art transition.
• Ya Fei formed and strengthened the Volcanic Rock Flame, merging it with her Dou Qi as she mastered Phoenix Dance Across the Nine Heavens.
• Ya Fei's cultivation art reached the high Earth class, and Xiao Yan continued refining the pill's medicinal power.
• Xiao Yan's cultivation art summoned Ya Fei into the Endless Flame Domain, where she became the first human to arrive in person.
• The Proto-Emperor Flame enveloped Ya Fei and lifted her into the air as Xiao Yan directed its power.

Xiao Yan helped Ya Fei refine the Volcanic Rock Flame, giving her a new flame-powered dress and the strength to become a Dou Emperor. Xiao Yan also broke through to Dou Emperor, and Jia Xing Tian arrived at Jia Ma Sacred City, surprised to find Ya Fei beside him as a fellow Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Yan used the Proto-Emperor Flame to refine Ya Fei and form a powerful crimson-and-black dress that let her unleash her potential.
• Ya Fei emerged from the process with a desire to cultivate and the strength to advance to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Emperor-Breaking Pill's energy, broke through to Dou Emperor, and shattered the protective formation with his aura.
• Xiao Yan appeared on a mountain outside Jia Ma Sacred City and summoned Ya Fei to his side.
• Jia Xing Tian arrived from the northwest and recognized Ya Fei, expressing surprise at her Dou Emperor strength.

Ya Fei demonstrated her strength as a newly ascended Dou Emperor by challenging Jia Xing Tian and piercing his defenses with the Feather-Splitting Gun. Jia Xing Tian was left injured and wary of her power, while the gathered families witnessed the Mittel Family’s growing strength.

• Ya Fei told Jia Xing Tian that Hai Bo Dong was cultivating and offered to spar with him herself.
• Jia Xing Tian accepted Ya Fei’s challenge, and Xiao Yan watched as the gathered experts from Jia Ma Sacred City arrived.
• Ya Fei combined her Feather-Splitting Gun with a bead of Volcanic Rock Flame and fired at Jia Xing Tian.
• Jia Xing Tian raised a barrier of Mountain-Splitting Dou Qi, but Ya Fei’s shot pierced it and wounded his shoulder.
• Jia Xing Tian recognized the danger of Ya Fei’s attack, and the onlookers stared in shock at his injury.

Ya Fei showed off her new combat strength, then told Xiao Yan about the rising power of the Misty Cloud Sect and Nalan Jie's Brand Poison. Xiao Yan declined to help Nalan Jie and decided to wait for Liu Ling to win the Alchemist Grand Meeting and obtain the Soul Fusion Pill formula for Cai Lin.

• Mu Chen warned Mu Zhan to abandon his thoughts after Ya Fei's Feather-Splitting Gun injured Jia Xing Tian.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei returned to her residence, where she equipped the gun and discussed the situation in Jia Ma Sacred City.
• Ya Fei reported that Misty Cloud Sect elders had rapidly advanced to Dou Emperor strength, though Xiao Yan said their formation had a limit.
• Ya Fei explained that Nalan Jie was dying from Brand Poison, but Xiao Yan refused to save him.
• Xiao Yan said they should wait for Liu Ling to win the Alchemist Grand Meeting and claim the Soul Fusion Pill formula for Cai Lin.

Xiao Yan spent the morning with Ya Fei before heading to Liu Ling's residence on the day the Alchemist Grand Meeting began. There, he saw how the Life Spirit Flame had transformed the courtyard into a thriving garden and helped Liu Ling approach Dou Ling strength.

• Ya Fei reminded Xiao Yan that the Alchemist Grand Meeting began that day, and he teased her before they got ready.
• Ya Fei voiced her jealousy about Xiao Yan attending the gathering, and he left after telling her to rest.
• Xiao Yan went to Liu Ling's residence and was surprised by the dense medicinal energy in the courtyard.
• Xiao Yan saw that rare medicinal herbs flourished around Liu Ling as she cultivated with the Medicine Spirit Sacred Canon.
• Xiao Yan realized that the Life Spirit Flame's effects and the rich medicinal energy had helped Liu Ling advance toward Dou Ling strength.

Xiao Yan brought Liu Ling to the Alchemist Grand Meeting after helping her develop her own approach to alchemy. The meeting had become a one-day contest for talent as the Misty Cloud Sect’s influence grew, and Xiao Yan and Liu Ling entered the hall where the candidates and Association officials had gathered.

• Liu Ling finished cultivating her technique and showed confidence in the alchemical path she had begun to develop.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power to transport Liu Ling from the Royal Plaza’s outskirts into the crowd.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s declining influence and the Alchemist Grand Meeting’s shortened assessment process.
• Otto and Frank escorted Xiao Yan and Liu Ling into an antique-style hall, where they encountered Yaoyue and other attendees.
• Otto identified Chemir as the Association’s vice president and Yaoyue’s teacher.

Liu Ling used Xiao Yan’s teachings and the Medicine Spirit Sacred Canon to extract a Black Iron Spirit Leaf through her own unusual method at the Alchemist Grand Meeting. The test ended with the contestants submitting their medicinal liquids for purity scoring.

• Chemir announced that the first test would examine the contestants’ extraction skills, and Liu Ling studied the Black Iron Spirit Leaf before beginning.
• Liu Ling used the Medicine Spirit Sacred Canon and the Life Spirit Flame to ripen and strengthen the ingredient, purifying its medicinal properties without ordinary blazing refinement.
• A flame went out beneath the cauldron of another contestant, Liu Ling, whose Soul Hall arts had cost him more than half his lifespan.
• The Little Princess finished her extraction, while Liu Ling looked down on Xiao Yan as an unqualified second-tier alchemist.
• As the hourglass nearly ran out, Liu Ling gathered the Black Iron Spirit Leaf’s energy into a droplet of medicinal liquid and completed her extraction.
• Chemir explained the purity scoring rules, and the successful contestants lined up with their jade bottles for testing.

At the Alchemist Grand Meeting, Liu Ling astonished the hall by scoring ten points on the ingredient-refinement test, while Xiao Yan revealed his identity to Chemir. Watching Liu Ling’s technique gave Xiao Yan a new insight into Medusa’s condition, suggesting a second way to resolve the conflict of two souls in one body.

• Chemir announced the test results as Liu Ling scored eight points and the Little Princess scored far less.
• Liu Ling, the last contestant to test, scored ten points, stunning the hall and impressing Chemir, Otto, and Frank.
• Chemir asked Xiao Yan his name, and the revelation left him momentarily stunned before he resumed the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• After learning Xiao Yan’s identity, Liu Ling grew hostile and declared his confidence in winning the Grand Meeting.
• Watching Liu Ling refine medicinal ingredients gave Xiao Yan a new insight: replacing Medusa’s injured soul with the intact one might restore her to peak condition.

Xiao Yan planned to test a new way of combining the Super Fallen Heart Flame with Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame. At the Alchemist Grand Meeting, Liu Ling used her Life Spirit Flame to refine the incomplete prescription first, revealing its power to the judges and competitors.

• Xiao Yan considered using the intelligent Fallen Heart Flame to strengthen the Super Fallen Heart Flame.
• Fa Ma announced that the next assessment required alchemists to refine a pill from an incomplete prescription and then make another pill using their own abilities.
• Liu Ling studied the Bone-Replenishing Pill prescription and prepared to refine it with her Life Spirit Flame.
• Liu Ling’s Heavenly Flame caused the other flames across the plaza to bow toward her cauldron, astonishing Fa Ma, Chemir, Otto, and Frank.
• Liu Ling used the Life Spirit Flame to restore the ingredients’ vitality and grow three Bone-Replenishing Pills on a vine, becoming the first to finish.

Liu Ling won the Alchemist Grand Meeting by refining a fifth-tier pill and received the Soul Fusion Pill formula. Xiao Yan studied the formula and used it to comprehend the Blood Lotus Soul Fusion Pill, which could protect soul bodies from Heavenly Flames and restore their soul power.

• Xiao Yan examined Liu Ling's ingredients as Fa Ma inferred the conflict between the Misty Cloud Sect and the Xiao Clan was tied to the sect leader's abduction.
• Liu Ling used the Life Spirit Flame to refine an upgraded Blood Lotus Pill, stunning the crowd with its fifth-tier power.
• Fa Ma declared Liu Ling the champion and awarded her the sixth-tier Soul Fusion Pill formula.
• Liu Ling left the arena bitterly, while Xiao Yan returned to her room and studied the formula for Cai Lin's sake.
• Xiao Yan comprehended the Blood Lotus Soul Fusion Pill, which formed a protective blood scab around a soul body and restored soul power.

Xiao Yan refined a soul-nourishing pill to help Cai Lin fuse with the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then began separating the souls within the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. The chapter left Xiao Yan preparing for the fusion while Medusa asked how she could help and learned she could not yet enter the Endless Flame Domain.

• Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame to refine soul-nourishing medicinal ingredients and fuse them into Liu Ling's enhanced Blood Lotus Pill, creating a pill to aid Cai Lin's soul fusion with the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Ya Fei arrived and congratulated Liu Ling on her success at the Alchemist Grand Meeting before Xiao Yan announced that they would begin.
• Xiao Yan brought the sleeping Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python out and gently drew out the souls within its body.
• Xiao Yan separated the human-shaped soul from the serpent-shaped soul and returned the human-shaped soul to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Medusa appeared and asked how she could help, and Xiao Yan explained that she needed a strange flame to enter the Endless Flame Domain for now.

Xiao Yan guided Cai Lin through merging with the Wind Fury Dragon Flame inside the Endless Flame Domain. The process awakened her hidden strength and evolved her into an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, leaving her in human form with control over the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan fed the Blood Lotus Soul Fusion Pill to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul, forming protective armor around Cai Lin.
• Cai Lin swallowed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame seed, and Xiao Yan drew her into the Endless Flame Domain to control its unstable power.
• Xiao Yan and the other Heavenly Flame spirits helped Cai Lin fuse with the flame and used the Emperor Flame to stimulate her hidden potential.
• Cai Lin evolved into an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and gained control of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Cai Lin appeared in human form within the light of the Endless Flame Domain, resembling Medusa but radiating a young woman's vitality.

Xiao Yan stabilized the changes caused by fusing soul power with the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and used his insights to devise new cultivation methods for Cai Lin and himself. His soul power began approaching a breakthrough as he comprehended Annihilation Heart Bell.

• Xiao Yan reflected on how Heavenly Flames could foster new life and tested the modified spirit-fusion method while Medusa asked whether it had worked.
• Medusa transformed into a tiny Heaven Swallowing Python, and Xiao Yan left Ya Fei's residence to cultivate in the wilderness outside Jia Ma Sacred City.
• Xiao Yan absorbed soul power released through his cultivation method, strengthening his soul and considering a cultivation method suited to Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yan comprehended Star-Chasing Moon-Pursuit for Cai Lin, a method that absorbed stellar energy and worked with compatible archery Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan used his insights into the Purple Palace Heavenly Evolution Art and the Super Fallen Heart Flame to comprehend the soul-power cultivation method Annihilation Heart Bell.

After three years of preparation, Silver Protector gathered the other Protectors and planned to target the Xiao Clan while postponing revenge against the Poison Sect. He assigned Wu Protector to attack the Xiao Clan when Xiao Yan's mother came to the Misty Cloud Sect, while secretly calculating how to profit from Wu Protector's fate.

• Silver Protector met with Yun Shan and the three other Protectors, whose strength had grown during their three years apart.
• Wu Protector reported that the Poison Sect had killed Iron Protector and was too powerful for him to confront alone.
• Silver Protector and the others discussed the Xiao Clan, and Silver Protector argued against attacking it directly because its true strength was unknown.
• Silver Protector ordered Wu Protector to destroy the Xiao Clan when Xiao Yan's mother arrived, with the two formidable Xiao Clan members absent.
• Wu Protector reluctantly accepted the assignment, while Silver Protector privately considered using the mission to gain credit and removing Wu Protector and Xuan Protector.

The Misty Cloud Sect gathered with Jia Ma’s powerful figures to witness a confrontation, while Yun Shan worried that the event’s two main figures had not arrived. Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran appeared, and Xiao Yan finally descended in a dazzling display of sword Qi.

• Yun Shan hosted Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Qin Yueyao, and other guests as they awaited the start of the event.
• Jia Xing Tian learned that Yun Shan had become a Dou Zong and worried about the threat to the Jia Ma Imperial Family.
• Yun Yun arrived with Nalan Yanran and directed her to join Yun Shan.
• Fa Ma sensed that Nalan Yanran had reached peak Dou Wang, startling the assembled guests.
• Yun Yun and Hai Bo Dong sensed Xiao Yan approaching as the Misty Cloud Sect disciples wondered whether he would come.
• Xiao Yan descended into the plaza amid a vast display of sword Qi.

After finishing his secluded cultivation, Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to fight Yun Yun, but Gu He interrupted and challenged him with a powerful sword technique. Xiao Yan comprehended two new techniques and declared that Gu He would lose within three moves or he would leave.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect with late Spirit Realm soul strength and five-star Dou Emperor cultivation, and he prepared to fight Yun Yun.
• Gu He appeared with a changed appearance and five-star Dou Emperor strength, interrupting the duel and attacking Xiao Yan with Thousand-Flame Sword Aura.
• Xiao Yan calmly faced Gu He's sword shadows and comprehended Return to Emptiness and Return to Origin.
• Xiao Yan told Gu He he would leave if Gu He could withstand three moves, shocking the spectators.